Create vs Show - What's the difference?
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To put into existence.
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, title= To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
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, title= To be creative, imaginative.
To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
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, title= To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).
(archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
* Shakespeare
To display, to have somebody see (something).
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, title= To bestow; to confer.
To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
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, title= To guide or escort.
To be visible, to be seen.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (1809-1892)
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, title= (informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
(informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
(racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
(obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
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, title= (countable) An exhibition of items.
(countable) A demonstration.
(countable) A broadcast program/programme.
(countable) A movie.
(uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
* Young
A project or presentation.
The major leagues.
(mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
(obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
* Bible, Luke xx. 46. 47
* (John Milton)
(medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
As a verb create
is (lb).As a noun show is
show, spectacle.create
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(creat)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
Synonyms
* (to put into existence) generate * inventAntonyms
* (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitateAdjective
(en adjective)- Hearts create of duty and zeal.
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* * * (wikipedia "create")Anagrams
* English transitive verbs ----show
English
Alternative forms
* shew (archaic)Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- to show''' mercy; to '''show favour
Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
- Just such she shows before a rising storm.
- All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed .}}
- My lord of York, it better showed with you.
Usage notes
In the past, shew'' was used as a past tense form and ''shewed as a past participle of this verb; both forms are now archaic.Synonyms
* (display) display, indicate, point out, reveal, exhibit * (indicate a fact to be true) demonstrate, prove * (put in an appearance) arrive, show upAntonyms
* (display) conceal, cover up, hide * (indicate a fact to be true) disprove, refuteDerived terms
* show a clean pair of heels * show ankle * * show off * show one's true colors * show one's true stripes * show somebody the door * show upSee also
* showcase * showdownNoun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show . He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- I envy none their pageantry and show .
- Let's get on with the show'''. Let's get this '''show''' on the road. They went on an international road '''show''' to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual dog and pony ' show .
- (Raymond)
- Beware of the scribes,which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
- He through the midst unmarked, / In show plebeian angel militant / Of lowest order, passed.